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1 Novitates American Museum of Natural History New York Erscheinungsverlauf Stand: Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 1

2 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 2

3 A Revision of the American Spiders of the Family Microstigmatidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) N A New Genus and Species of Colubrid Snake from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico N Scaloposaurian Reptiles from the Triassic of Antarctica N A Revision of the Moth Genera MIeris and Nemeris (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) N On Central American Cryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei) N New Material of the Oligocene Muroid Rodent Nonomys, and Its Bearing on Muroid Origins N The Raccoon (Procyon lotor) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia Nesting Sea Turtles and Foraging Raccoons N The Genus Paradisaea-Display and Evolution N The Milliped Family Tingupidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Brannerioidea) N Does Interspecific Competition Limit the Sizes of Ranges of Species? N A Revision of the Spider Genus Sergiolus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N Studies on the Paleozoic Selachian Genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz - No. 1. Historical Review and Revised Diagnosis of Ctenacanthus, With a List of Referred Taxa N Relationships of Oryzias, and the Groups of Atherinomorph Fishes N A Review of the Fossil Turtles of Australia Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 3

4 N Spotted Poison Frogs: Descriptions of Three New Dendrobates from Western Amazonia, and Resurrection of a Lost Species from "Chiriqui" N Studies on the Paleozoic Selachian Genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz: No. 2. Bythiacanthus St. John and Worthen, Amelacanthus, New Genus, Eunemacanthus St. John and Worthen, Sphenacanthus Agassiz, and Wodnika Miunster N A New Montane Microhylid Frog from Papua New Guinea, and Comments on the Status of the Genus Aphantophryne N The Anatomy and Interrelationships of Mesozoic Hybodont Sharks N Phylogeny of Early Tertiary Carnivora, With a Description of a New Species of Protictis From the Middle Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming N Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No Identities of Rats from Pulau Maratua and Other Islands off East Borneo N Redescription of the Indo-Australian Filefish Acreichthys radiatus (Popta) (Monacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) N A Revision of the Fossil Genus Diplomystus, With Comments on the Interrelationships of Clupeomorph Fishes N An Early Eocene Sirenian from Patagonia (Mammalia, Sirenia) N Results of the Archbold Expeditions. - No A New Genus of Arboreal Rat from Luzon Island in the Philippines N A Revision of the Fossil Genus Knightia, With a Description of a New Genus From the Green River Formation (Teleostei, Clupeidae) N An Annotated List of the Birds of Cerro Urutani on the Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 4

5 Border of Estado Bolivar, Venezuela, and Territorio Roraima, Brazil N An Annotated List of the Birds of Cerro Urutani on the Border of Estado Bolivar, Venezuela, and Territorio Roraima, Brazil N On the Micromnygalinae, A New Subfanmily of Mygalomorpl Spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) N The Oriental Term-ite Genus Labritermes Holmgren (Isoptera, Termitidae, Termitinae) N Description of Three Unusual Species of the Black Fly Subgenus Simulium (Ectemnaspis) from the Andes of Colombia (Diptera, Simuliidae) N Cranial Morphology of the Baenid Turtles N Blunt-Headed Vine Snakes (Imantodes) in Panama, Including a New Species and Other Revisionary Notes N Cranial Osteology and Function in the Tree Sloths, Bradypus and Choloepus N Systematics of the Avian Genus Emberizoides (Emberizidae) N A Revision of the Sub-Buteonine Hawks (Accipitridae, Aves) N Systematics of the New World Nectar-Feeding Bats (Mammalia, Phyllostomidae), Based on the Morphology of the Hyoid and Lingual Regions N Redefinition, Revised Phylogeny, and Relationships of Pseudopsinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) N A New Genus and Species of Oxytelinae from Australia, With a Description of Its Larva, Systematic Position, and Phylogenetic Relationships (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) N Western Chinese Arvicolines (Rodentia) Collected by the Sage Expedition N Results of the Archbold Expeditions. - No The Definition of Apomys, a Native Rat of the Philippine Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 5

6 Islands N Results of the Archbold Expeditions - No Bats from Eastern Papua and the East Papuan Islands N A Revision of the American Spiders of the Genus Camillina (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N The Lower Jaws of Baenid Turtles N Bats of Bolivia: An Annotated Checklist N The Raccoon (Procyon lotor) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia Reduction in Summer Home Ranges by Females N A New Species of Hyla from Cerro Colorado, and Other Tree Frog Records and Geographical Notes from Western Panama N Revision of Neotropical Eurhin (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Baridinae) N Lilliputocorini, a New Tribe with Six New Species of Lilliputocoris, and a Cladistic Analysis of the Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae) N Pseudopsis: Two New Species from India (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pseudopsinae) N Vocal Behavior, Morphology- and Hybridization of Australian Spotted and Yellow-rumped Pardalotes (Aves, Pardalotus) N The Opilionid Subfamily Ortholasmatinae (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Nemastomatidae) N Cranial Anatomy of Hybodus basanus Egerton from the Lower Cretaceous of England N Two New Hylid Frogs from Papua New Guinea and a Discussion of the Nyctimystes papua Species Group N A Review of the chilensis Group of the Spider Genus Echemoides (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 6

7 N Eutherian Tarsals from the Late Paleocene of Brazil N A Revision of the European Eocene Primate Genus Protoadapis and Some Allied Forms N A Revision of the Neotropical Spider Genus Apodrassodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N Eppelsheimius: Revision, Distribution, Sister Group Relationship (Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae) N The Ozophora of Panama, with Descriptions of Thirteen New Species (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae) N Notes on Bolivian Mammals Additional Records of Bats N A New Fossil Species of Termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae) N Specific Status of the North American Fence Lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and Sceloporus occidentalis, With Comments on Chromosome Variation N Relationships of the Florentiamyidae (Rodentia, Geomyoidea) Based on Cranial and Dental Morphology N Colosteus scutellatus (Newberry), a Primitive Temnospondyl Amphibian from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio N Systematics of the Adianthidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) N The Origin and Affinities of the South American Condylarthra and Early Tertiary Litopterna (Mammalia) N Minerva antiqua (Aves, Strigiformes), an Owl Mistaken for an Edentate Mammal N Studies on the Paleozoic Selachian Genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. - No. 3. Nominal Species Referred to Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 7

8 Ctenacanthus N Results of the Archbold Expeditions. - No The Snakes of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea N Shell Structure of the Galapagos Rift Limpet Neomphalus fretterae McLean, 1981, With Notes on Muscle Scars and Insertions N Patchy Distribution and Systematics of Oreomanes fraseri (Aves,?Coerebidae) of Andean Polylepis Woodlands N Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on Tropical Australian Bats N On the Relationships of Phallostethid Fishes (Atherinomorpha), With Notes on the Anatomy of Phallostethus dunckeri Regan, 1913 N Prosarcodon lonanensis, a New Paleocene Micropternodontid Palaeoryctoid Insectivore from Asia N A Revision of the Spider Genus Liphistius (Araneae, Mesothelae) N Zeiforms as Primitive Plectognath Fishes N An Arboreal Poison Frog (Dendrobates) from Western Panama N Relationships of the Extinct Rodent Cricetops to Lophiomys and the Cricetinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae) N Geographic Ranges of North American Birds N Nesting Biology of Diphaglossine Bees (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) N External and Middle Ear Characteristics of Primates, With Reference to Tarsier-Anthropoid Affinities N A Revision of the Neotropical Spiders of the New Genus Apopyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N Why Bryozoans Have Avicularia-A Review of the Evi- Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 8

9 dence N The Spider Family Homalonychidae (Arachnida, Araneae) N A Morphometric Analysis of Carollia (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) N A Revision of the Spider Genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N Kirkomys, a New Florentiamyid (Rodentia, Geomyoidea) from the Whitneyan of Sioux County, Nebraska N A Revision of the African Mygalomorph Spider Genus Allothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) N On the Relationships of the Triassic-Liassic Redfieldiiform Fishes N Jurassic Fishes from the Western United States, With Comments on Jurassic Fish Distribution N A Phylogeny of the Kingbirds and Their Allies N Comparative Nesting Biology of the Bee Tribe Exomalopsini (Apoidea, Anthophoridae) N Shallow-Water Bryozoans of Carre Bow Cay, Belize N New Occurrences of Extinct Meiolaniid Turtles in New Caledonia N Studies on Malagasy Spiders, - 1. The Family Gallieniellidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea) N Areography of North American Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles N Quaternary Mammal Localities and Heptaxodontid Rodents of Jamaica N Cranial Morphology of the Fossil Elasmobranch Synechodus dubrisiensis N The Cervical and Caudal Vertebrae of the Cryptodiran Turtle, Melolania platyceps, from the Pleistocene of Lord Howe Island, Australia Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 9

10 N Skeletal Integrity of Mimolagus rodens (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) N A Revision of the Moth Genus Acronyctodes, With a Review of the New World Bistonini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) N Studies on Malagasy Spiders, - 2. The Family Trochanteriidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea), With a Revision of the Genus Platyoides N The Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) of Mississippi and Louisiana N Systematic Studies of Oryzomyine Rodents (Muridae): Definitions of Oryzomys villosus and Oryzomys talamancae N Variation and Population Structure of the Tourmaline Sunangel, Heliangelus exortis exortis (Aves, Trochilidae) N ,1985 Skull Morphology and Relationships of Geomyoid Rodents N On the Classification of the Early Tertiary Erinaceomorpha (Insectivora, Mammalia) N Definitions of Indochinese Rattus losea and a New Species from Vietnam N Preserved Ammonitellas of Scaphites (Ammonoidea, Ancyloceratina) N Notes on Micro-Fabric in Upper Paleozoic Scallops N A Review of the Genus Isothrix (Rodentia, Echimyidae) N Philippine Rattus: A New Species from the Sulu Archipelago N Bats of Guana, British Virgin Islands N2819 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 10

11 Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene, of Patagonia N Philippine Rats: A New Species of Crateromys from Dinagat Island N The Sespedectinae, a New Subfamily of Hedgehoglike Insectivores N Internal Structures in the Early Whorls of Mesozoic Ammonites N An Annotated Checklist of the Shorefishes of the Canary Islands N Behavioral Notes on the Nest-Parasitic Afrotropical Honeyguides (Aves: Indicatoridae) N Interrelationships of Fossil and Recent Anchovies (Teleostei: Engrauloidea) and Description of a New Species from the Miocene of Cyprus N An Essay on Euteleostean Classification N Stethacanthid Elasmobranch Remains from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Namurian E2b) of Montana N Permian Gastropods from Perak, Malaysia. - Part 3. The Murchisoniids, Cerithiids, Loxonematids, and Subulitids N Marwe coarctata, a Remarkable New Cyphophthalmid from a Limestone Cave in Kenya (Arachnida, Opiliones) N Permian Scallops of the Pectinacean Family Streblochondriidae N Specialized Enamel in Incisors of Eomyid Rodents N The Theory of Range-Size (RS) Distributions N An Annotated Catalogue of Malagasy Primates (Families Lemuridae, Indriidae, Daubentoniidae, Megaladapidae, Cheirogaleidae) in the Collections of The Amer- Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 11

12 ican Museum of Natural History N The West African Pygmy Herrng Sierrathrissa leonensis: General Features, Visceral Anatomy, and Osteology N Some Linyphiid Spiders from South America (Araneae, Linyphiidae) N New Species and Notes on Hies Belonging to the Genus Apiocera (Diptera, Apioceridae) N Genenrc Descriptions of New World Lithinini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) N Notes on Bats of Sudan N Fossil Mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighom and Wind River Basins, Wyoming, with Definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages" N Baluchimyinae, A New Ctenodactyloid Rodent Subfamily from the Miocene of Baluchistan N Revision of the Plant Bug Genus Pseudopsallus Van Duzee (Heteroptera: Minridae) N On Atopophrynus, a Recently Described Frog Wrongly Assigned to the Dendrobatidae N A Cladistic Analysis of the Opilionid Superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea, with Descriptions of the New Family Ceratolasmatidae, the New Genus Acuclavella, and Four New Species N Late Cretaceous Mammal Horizons from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico N A Phylogeny of the Thirty-Three Genera in the Empidonax Assemblage of Tyrant Flycatchers N Bryozoans from Bali, Lombok, and Komodo N A Review of the Zelotine Spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of China N Two New Catostomid Fishes (Cypriniformes) from the Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 12

13 Northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico N Paulamys, a Replacement Name for Floresomys Musser, 1981 (Muridae), and New Matenral of that Taxon from Flores, Indonesia N Mexican Goodeid Fishes of the Genus Characodon, with Description of a New Species N Squamocoris Knight and Ramentomiris, New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae). A Cladistic Analysis and Description of Seven New Species from Mexico and the Westen United States N An Enigmatic New Snake from the Peruvian Andes, with Notes on the enodontini (Colubridae: enodontinae) N On Teutoniella, an American Genus of the Spider Family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea) N On the Tibial and Patellar Glands, Relationships, and American Genera of the Spider Family Leptonetidae (Arachnida, Araneae) N Sperm Morphology of Murid Rodents from Malaysia and its Possible Phylogenetic Significance N Anatomical Revision of the Fossil Shark Hybodus fraasi (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) N A Review of the Spider Genus Cyrioctea (Araneae, Zodariidae) N An Annotated Checklist of Coral-Associated Bryozoans N Chilehexops, a New Funnelweb Mygalomorph Spider Genus from Chile (Araneae, Dipluridae) N The Natural History of the Old World Nomadine Parasitic Bee Pasites maculatus (Anthophoridae: Nomadinae) and Its Host Pseudapis diversipes (Halictidae: Nomiinae) N2861 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 13

14 Sundaic Rattus: Definitions of Rattus baluensis and Rattus korinchi N A New Genus and Species of Microhylid Frog from the Cerro de la Neblina Region of Venezuela and a Discussion of Relationships Among New World Microhylid Genera N Early Triassic Gastropods from the Sinbad Member of the Moenkopi Formation, San Rafael Swell, Utah N The Interstitial Bryozoan Fauna from Capron Shoal, Florida N Coelacanths from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil N The Identity of Tarsius pumilus, a Pygmy Species Endemic to the Montane Mossy Forests of Central Su- lawesi N Apparent Triploidy in the Unisexual Brahminy Blind Snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus N Chromosomes of Bipes, Mesobaena, and Other Amphisbaenians (Reptilia), with Comments on Their Evo- lution N Selected Features of the Desmostylian Skeleton and Their Phylogenetic Implications N The Walrus Auditory Region and the Monophyly of Pinnipeds N Late Tertiary Mammals from the Mongolian People's Republic N Observations on Intertidal Organism Associations of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. II. Morphology and Distribution of Littorina irrorata (Say) N Studies on Malagasy Spiders, - 3. The Zelotine Gnaphosidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea), with a Review of the Genus Camillina N Iteration of Ligament Structures in Pteriomorphian Bivalves N Two New Species of Anchovies of the Genus Stole- Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 14

15 phorus (Engraulidae), with a Key to Species of Engraulis, Encrasicholina, and Stolephorus N Auditory Features and Affinities of the Eocene Bats Icaronycteris and Palaeochiropteryx (Microchiroptera, incertae sedis) N Cranial Anatomy of the Lower Jurassic Shark Hybodus reticulatus (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), with Comments on Hybodontid Systematics N Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History - Part 4. Passeriformes: Tyrannidae, Pipridae, Cotingidae, Oxyruncidae, Phytotomidae, Pittidae, Philepittidae, Acanthisittidae, Menuridae, Atrichomithidae N Amber Fossil Drosophilidae (Diptera), with Particular Reference to the Hispaniolan Taxa N The Phylogenetic Position of Oreopithecus and Its Significance in the Origin of the Hominoidea N The Triassic Reptile Prolacerta in Antarctica N The Occurrence of Hadromys (Rodentia: Muridae) in Early Pleistocene Siwalik Strata in Northern Pakistan and Its Bearing on Biogeographic Affinities Between Indian and Northeaster African Murine Faunas N A new fossil species of termite from Dominican amber, Cryptotermes yamini (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) The Erigonine Spiders of North America. Part 8. The Genus Eperigone Crosby and Bishop (Araneae, Linyphiidae) N Evolution of the Aeluroid Camivora: Significance of Auditory Structure in the Nimravid Cat Dinictis N2886 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 15

16 Nesting Biology and Immature Stages of a New Species in the Bee Genus Hesperapis (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae: Dasypodinae) N A Review of the Chilean Spiders of the Superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) N The Shrew Tenrecs of Madagascar: Systematic Revision and Holocene Distribution of Microgale (Tenreci- dae, Insectivora) N Notes on Bolivian Mammals - 3: A Revised Diagnosis of Andalgalomys (Rodentia, Muridae) and the Description of a New Subspecies N Notes on Bolivian Mammals - 4: - The Genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) in the Eastern Lowlands N On the First African Spiders of the Family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) N The Interrelationships of Higher Ruminant Families with Special Emphasis on the Members of the Cervoidea N On the First American Spiders of the Subfamily Stemodinae (Araneae, Malkaridae) N A Hypothesis on the Homology of Proboscidean Tusks Based on Paleontological Data N Studies on Amphisbaenians (Reptilia) The Small Round-headed Species (Cynisca) from Western Africa N Archaeodictyna ulova, new species (Araneae: Dictynidae), A Remarkable Kleptoparasite of Group-Living Eresid Spiders (Stegodyphus spp., Araneae: Eresidae) N Two New Species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia) from Peru and Bolivia N A New Poison Frog (Dendrobates) from Andean Colombia, with Notes on a Lowland Relative N Nesting Biology of the Bee Ashmeadiella holtil and Its Cleptoparasite, a New Species of Stelis (Apoidea: Megachilidae) N New Terrestrial Arachnids from the Devonian of Gil- Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 16

17 boa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida) N Trematops milleri Williston, 1909 Identified as a Junior Synonym of Acheloma cumminsi Cope, 1882, with a Revision of the Genus N Nesting Biology, Immature Stages, and Phylogenetic Placement of the Palaearctic Bee Pararhophites (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) N The Affinities of Notocetus vanbenedeni, an Early Miocene Platanistoid (Cetacea, Mammalia) from Patagonia, Southern Argentina N Hybrid Orgin of a Unisexual Species of Whiptail Lizard, Cnemidophorus neomexicanus, in Western North America: New Evidence and a Review N A New Species of Didogobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Canary Islands N Comparative Osteology of the Asian Catfish Family Chacidae, with the Description of a New Species from Burma N Goliathyris lewyi, New Species (Brachiopoda, Terebratulacea) from the Jurassic of Gebel El-Minshera, Northern Sinai N Nests and Immature Stages of the Bee Paratetrapedia swainsonae (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) N A New Species of Microgale (Insectivora: Tenrecidae) from Northeastern Madagascar N Cranial Evidence for the Monophyletic Origin of Bats N The Chordeumatid Millipeds of Chile (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida) N Systematics and Geographic Variation in the Goldenbreasted Puffleg Eriocnemis mosquera (Aves, Trochilidae) N A Phylogeny of the Thirty-Two Genera in the Elaenia Assemblage of Tyrant Flycatchers N The Phylogenetic Affinities of the Flycatcher Genera Myiobius Darwin and Terenotriccus Ridgway N2915 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 17

18 A Revision of the American Spiders of the Genus Micaria (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) N A Trigona from Late Cretaceous Amber of New Jersey (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) N Revision of the West Indian Emydid Turtles (Testudines) N The Identity of Sciurus duida J. A. Allen (Rodentia: Sciuridae) N Checklist of the Vascular Flora of St. Catherines Island, Georgia N Basicranial Morphology of Early Tertiary Erinaceomorphs and the Origin of Prinmates N Skull Morphology of Gregorymys and Relationships of the Entoptychinae (Rodentia, Geomyidae) N A Phylogeny of the Flatbill and Tody-tyrant Assemblage of Tyrant Hycatchers N On "Retrogression" in the Evolution of the Phocinae and Phylogenetic Affinities of the Monk Seals N Ecology, Behavior, and Mature Larva of a New Species of the Old World Bee Genus Camptopoeum (Andrenidae: Panurginae) N Two New Species and a New Genus of Cardinalfishes (Perciformnes: Apogonidae) from Rapa, South Pacific Ocean N Devonobiomorpha, A New Order of Centipeds (Chilopoda) from the Middle Devonian of Gilboa, New York State, USA, and the Phylogeny of Centiped Orders N New Species of Oaxacacoris Schwartz & Stonedahl and Pseudopsallus Van Duzee, and a New Genus, Presidiomiris, from Texas (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylini) N A Revision of the Mygalomorpl Spider Genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae) N Evolution of the Aeluroid Carnivora: Significance of the Ventral Promontorial Process of the Petrosal, and Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 18

19 the Origin of Basicranial Patterns in the Living Families N Hamiltonichthys mapesi, g. & sp. Nov. (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii), from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas N New Species and Subspecies of Coral Snakes, Genus Micrurus (Elapidae), with Notes on Type Specimens of Several Species N Phylogenetic Implications of Shell Microstructure in the Pseudomonotidae, Extinct Bivalvia N A Record of the Tube-nosed Bat (Murina florium) from Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya) with Notes on Related Species (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) N Notes on Bolivian Mammals Taxonomy and Distribution of Bolomys (Muridae, Rodentia) N Morphological and Physiological Aspects of Coloration in the Land Crab Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville, 1835) N A Revision of the Spider Genus Drassinella (Araneae, Liocranidae) N Euchontha Walker and Pareuchontha, New Genus (Lepidoptera; Dioptidae) a Revision, Including Description of Three New Species, and Discussion of a Male Forewing Modification N Evolution of Extreme Sexual Dimorphisms: Structural and Behavioral Convergence Among Broad-Headed Male Drosophilidae (Diptera) N A Revision of the Spider Genus Segestrioides (Araneae, Diguetidae) N2940 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 19

20 The Skeletal Morphology of the Cretaceous Cryptodiran Turtle, Adocus, and the Relationships of the Trionychoidea N Distributional Patterns of Indo-Malayan Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) N Integumental Chromatophores of a Color-Change, Thermoregulating Lizard, Phrynosoma modestum (Iguanidae; Reptilia) N Studies on Amphisbaenians (Reptilia) - 8. Two Genera of Small Species from East Africa (Geocalamus and Loveridgea) N Old World Pilophorini: Descriptions of Nine New Species with Additional Synonymic and Taxonomic Changes (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) N Systematic Notes on Liberian Bats N A New Frog of the Genus Ctenophryne (Microhylidae) from the Pacific Lowlands of Northwestern South America N Occurrence, Chemical Characteristics, and Paleontology of the Fossil Resins from New Jersey N Proglyptosaurus huerfanensis, New Genus, New Species: Glyptosaurine Lizard (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Early Eocene of Colorado N A New Sarcoglanidine Catfish, Phylogeny of Its Subfamily, and an Appraisal of the Phyletic Status of the Trichomycterinae (Teleostei, Trichomycteridae) N Systematics and Biogeography of the Genus Gambusia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poecilidae) N Long-term Ecological Studies on a Population of Painted Turtles, Chrysemys picta, on Long Island, New York N Cyprinodon nichollsi, a New Pupfish from Hispaniola, and Species Characteristics of C. Bondi Myers (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) N2953 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 20

21 New Species of Microhylid Frogs from the Owen Stanley Mountains of Papua New Guinea and Resurrection of the Genus Aphantophryne N A Review of the Late Season Stenodemini of Southwest North America, and a Description of the New Genus Caracoris from Brazil (Heteroptera: Miridae) N Two New Species and the Redescription of Another Species of the Cleptoparasitic Bee Genus Triepeolus with Notes on Their Immature Stages (Anthophoridae: Nomadinae) N Morphology and Systematic Significance of First Instars of the Cleptoparasitic Bee Tribe Epeolini (Anthophonrdae: Nomadinae) N Permian Gastropoda of the Southwestern United States Pleurotomariacea: Eotomariidae, Lophospiriidae, Gosseletinidae N Chelid Turtles from the Miocene Freshwater Limestones of Riversleigh Station, Northwestern Queensland, Australia N Description of the Embryonic Shell of Nautilus belauensis (Cephalopoda) N Systematic Studies of Oryzomyine Rodents (Muridae): the Identity of Oecomys pheipsi Tate N Life History Studies of the "Prinmitive" Panurgine Bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Panurginae) N A Review of the Spider Genus Teminius (Araneae, Miturgidae) N Revision of Zygothrica (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Part II. The First African Species, Two New Indo-Pacific Groups, and the bilineata and samoaensis Species Groups N Oligo-Miocene Vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a Catalog of Localities N Report on Fish Collections from Rapa, French Polynesia N2966 Reich 002: Animalia Z00136-American Museum of Natural History - Novitates Seite 21

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